jeudi 26 Jui 2008, 6h33m

I've gone from 10,000 track plays to 20,000 in almost exactly 13 months.

Since there's never really a time when my tastes don't fluctutate, it's difficult to tell how much they've changed, but there's no question that my tastes have expanded, and at the same time, I still love almost everything I did a year ago.

My recent exploration of the fringe genres of hip hop, such as early electro, instrumental hip hop and abstract hip hop is probably the most profound change. I've been into trip hop (as loose a label as that is) and a bit of instrumental hip hop for a while now, but I've only recently really started to explore this stuff in further depth, and I've been really impressed with what I've found. Particularly from these artists:

DJ Shadow
Dan the Automator
Deltron 3030
*that's a lot of D's*
Bonobo
The Herbaliser
UNKLE

Anyway, it sure has been a good year.

20,000th track: Song Of Life by Leftfield.